Department of Environmental Sciences

Environmental Sciences

Vital, managed ecosystems for the 22nd century and beyond

The Department of Environmental Sciences is focussed on how interactions between the soil-plant-atmosphere system affect food security and related ecosystem services today and in the future. This includes investigating the flow and partitioning of resources such as carbon and water. We focus on both natural and man-made sources of climate variation, regeneration of degraded land and water and the development of sustainable agricultural technologies.